December 15, 2009
NY architecture roundup: lost landmarks, new ones rise
Fans of decaying industrial architecture will be happy to learn a fence has come down at Red Hook Park, allowing views of the waterfront and the 1922 Grain Elevator.
Luckily it has not yet earned a place on Lost City’s 2009 Roundup of Lost NY Landmarks.
The High Line park, which opened in June is making progress on its next section, according to new pictures on the official blog for the abandoned rail tracks. Meanwhile, they’re still working to acquire rights to the northernmost section of the tracks next to the Javits Center.
Check out the not-so-permissible view from the top of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn.
The Curbed real estate blog has come up with a list of the best new buildings of the decade, which overlaps slightly with the list of important new NYC buildings Francis Morrone compiled for NewYorkology in 2008.
Coming up in May, the Oxford University Press will publish a new edition of one of the city’s most essential architecture reference books, the AIA Guide to New York City. The specs: paperback, 1056 pages, $39.95. For a preview see co-author Fran Leadon’s AIA book updates at eOculus.
In April, federal Economic Recovery Plan funds were allocated to stabilize the abandoned Ellis Island Baggage and Dormitory Building, which was built in 1908 but has long been exposed to the elements with broken windows and hazardous waste issues. At the time, a National Park Service official said there would “probably” be limited public tours of the building once the work was done. But the December newsletter from the non-profit Save Ellis Island offers more encouraging news: “… SEI is committed to fully restoring and re-opening to the public the ‘culturally significant’ Baggage & Dormitory building and south side hospital spaces. …”
The Tenement Museum blog recently looked at the immigrant processing center that pre-dated Ellis Island: Castle Garden.
Recent offerings from Christopher Gray’s Streetscapes column in the New York Times include a feature on a 1908 Cass Gilbert railroad station and a myth-debunker about The Evelyn.
Forgotten NY’s latest features cover Boerum Hill and the Manhattan neighborhood between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.
310 W. 80th St. now bears a plaque marking it as a former residence of Dorothy Parker .
Picture credit: Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Grand staircase installed at Brooklyn Bridge Park
December 15, 2009 9:36 AM in Architecture, History, Midtown, Out of Manhattan, Upper West Side
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